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Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
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I always wrote my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11
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Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.
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But what I've learned is, when your adrenaline is flowing, you can do a lot. I'm not very physical, but once some punks were trying to break into my house and I chased them down.
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I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.
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The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.
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I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
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Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
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I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
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I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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